For we must share, if we would keep, that blessing from above; ceasing to give, we cease to have; such is the… — Richard Chenevix Trench Army Copy Share Image
If we with earnest effort could succeed To make our life one long, connected prayer, As lives of some, perhaps, have been… — Richard Chenevix Trench Angel Copy Share Image
The sin of pride is the sin of sins; in which all subsequent sins are included, as in their germ; they are… — Richard Chenevix Trench Germs Copy Share Image
Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten… — Richard Chenevix Trench Amber Copy Share Image
Nothing is true but Love, nor aught of worth; Love is the incense which doth sweeten earth. — Richard Chenevix Trench Earth Copy Share Image
Sin may be clasped so close, we cannot see its face. — Richard Chenevix Trench Faces Copy Share Image
Best friends might loathe us, if what things perverse we know of our own selves they also knew. — Richard Chenevix Trench Best friend Copy Share Image
All beautiful things bring sadness, nor alone Sweet music, as our wisest Poet spake, Because in us keen longings they awake. — Richard Chenevix Trench Awake Copy Share Image
Prayer is not getting man's will done in heaven, but getting God's will done on earth. It is not overcoming God's reluctance… — Richard Chenevix Trench Done Copy Share Image
As shadows attend substances, so words follow upon things. — Richard Chenevix Trench Language Copy Share Image
"The best is oftentimes the enemy of the good;" and without claiming for an instant that title of good for my book,… — Richard Chenevix Trench Book Copy Share Image
We speak of persons as jovial, as being born under the planet Jupiter or Jove, which was the joyfullest star and the… — Richard Chenevix Trench Astrology Copy Share Image
Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason. — Richard Chenevix Trench Communication Copy Share Image
None but God can satisfy the longings of an immortal soul; that as the heart was made for Him, so He only… — Richard Chenevix Trench Heart Copy Share Image
The love of our own language, what is it, in fact, but the love of our country expressing itself in one particular… — Richard Chenevix Trench Country Copy Share Image
We live not in our moments or our years: The present we fling from us like the rind Of some sweet future,… — Richard Chenevix Trench Anger Copy Share Image
The present is only intelligible in the light of the past. — Richard Chenevix Trench Anger Copy Share Image
The best is oftentimes the enemy of the good; and many a good book has remained unwritten... because there floated before the… — Richard Chenevix Trench Book Copy Share Image
Oh seize the instant time; you never will With water once passed by impel the mill. — Richard Chenevix Trench Instant Copy Share Image
We kneel, how weak; we rise, how full of power! Why, therefore, should we do ourselves this wrong, Or others — that… — Richard Chenevix Trench Anxious Copy Share Image
There is hardly a mistake which in the course of our lives we have committed, but some proverb, had we known and… — Richard Chenevix Trench Committed Copy Share Image
Not all who seem to fail have failed indeed,Not all who fail have therefor worked in vain.There is no failure for the… — Richard Chenevix Trench Brave Copy Share Image
Common sense meant once something very different from that plain wisdom, the common heritage of men, which we now call by this… — Richard Chenevix Trench Common Copy Share Image
Speak but little and well, if you would be esteemed as a man of merit. — Richard Chenevix Trench Ifs Copy Share Image
